The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-04-28
THE STANDARD.
JOHN Fl. MACKIBY
EDITOR.

nual expenditure for spirituous and
malt liquors in this country is seven
hundred millions Of dollars. The
drinking population is estimated to
be 1926, AT, making per capita
expenditure of 1850. During the
last five years the consumption of
spirits has decreased, while that Of
malt liquors has increased. This
seven hundred millions is taken from
the people at a cost to the liquor men
Of three hundred millions. The sta
tistician who prepared this table claims
that the American people expend
from twelve to seventeen dollars for
the necessaries of life for every one
paid out for liquor. This last COM
parison is doubtless far too low as re-
CARDS the amount paid out for liquors.
It is not a pleasant picture to con-
template, that more than one-fourth
of all the American people are drunk
ards. It is difficult to conceive where
first started the idea that it is respect
able or manly to espouse the cause of
the Devil, and strive to increase his
business. /. But the idea does find
lodgment in the narrow minds and
weak brains of some people. Men
will sneak into doggeries, and swill
themselves full of the internal stuff
sold there, disgracing themselves,
their families, their friends, and the
community in which they live, and
there is nothing gained by all this
sacrifice 1t is the Devils work, and
anything said against it is highly Of
fensive to His Satanic Majesty and
the imps who do his bowling upon
the earth. Let a man once display
the courage of coming out boldly in
opposition to this awful curse, and
the imps and bummers will howl
upon his track, and demand that eve
rybody else do likewise. They see
nothing nobler in life than the red
eyes, the purple nose and tottering
step Of the drunkard, and the bloat
and stencil of the brute who sells him
his liquor. With this awful array Of
figures-one-fourth to one-third of
the entire population of this great
country drunkards-men will still
have the brazen effrontery to stand up
and defend this internal curse. Such
conduct might be considered respecta-
BILE in perdition, but never will be in
Ohio and especially is this the case in
Jackson county.
The most unreasonable, as well as
the most contemplate and disgusting
feature of the work of the Devils
imps, is the brassy boasting that the
Republican party can have no higher
aim in life than the worshiping of a
bottle or beer-keg, and that every
man who dares to say that the great
principle Of righteousness should
govern the party, is an enemy to the
party. Think of it! A party which
for a generation has led every charge
upon the strongholds of sin, declariD G
itself the enemy of the home, and the
servant of the Devil! Such an as
sumption can only result from lack
of observation, or lack of common
understanding.
Suppose the ghosts of Ben. Wade
Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens,
Zach. Chandler. and a few others OF
like Republicanism, could come OK
to Ohio and find little knot Of office
seekers here and there declaring boldly
that the chief aim of the Republican
party is to wave palms among the green
flies of the doggeries. What vigor-
Gus use of the Kings English there
would be. The only ground tenable
for persons advocating such destiny
for the good old party is that progress
lis dead, or that the Republican party
is dead, or both. We claim that
= neither condition of things obtains
We maintain that few men who
make living by and through human
misery, cannot convince the intelli-
gent people of this State that it is
God-like to destroy the boys of this
country, and plunge every family
into distress. Such argument is a
generation behind the Republican
party.
Go stand by the grave of McPher-
son, Of Lyon, Of Kearney, of Sedg-
wick, of Lytle, of any of the hundreds
of thousands who fell in fighting the
battles Of freedom and the Republi-
can party, and think Of the magnif-
cent workings Of the Infinite hand
that shapes human destiny; think of
the grand march Of freedom, Of edu-
cation, of general prosperity and pro-
gress; and thank God that you are a
Republican. Then come down to the
miserable street-loafer, who has never
advanced a thought worthy of preser-
vation; who sees nothing in the Re-
publican party save the emoluments
of some petty Office, and hear him
utter the declaration that the only
aim the Republican party can have is
to crawl into bung-hole and die
and thank God that you are not a
fool.
Tn a GREAT lawsuit hetween two tel